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ضَفِرٌ

Root: ضفر

Full Definition

ضَفِرٌ and [its n. un.] ضَفِرَةٌ: see ضَفْرٌ.

def.2 كِنَانَةٌ ضَفِرَةٌ [in the TA ضفيرة, evidently a mistranscription,] i. q. مُمْتَلِئَةٌ [i. e. A full quiver]. (S, O. [Freytag writes كِنانةُ ضَفِرَةٌ, and explains it as meaning “ Gens Cinanah impleta est: ” but in my copies of the S and in the O, it is كِنَانَةٌ.])
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